Chapter 12B Quiz

As our sun continues through its life cycle, it will _________ and turn into a _______________.

• gradually get smaller and smaller until it dies out/ black hole

• Gradually get larger until its outer layers drift off/ white dwarf

• become denser and denser/ protostar

• become hotter and hotter blue/ hypergiant.

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

All stars begin their life in a

• Main Sequence

• Nebula

• Protostar

• Black Dwarf

A gigantic explosion that causes the death of a large star is called

• pulsar
• red giant 
• supernova
• black hole

Average size stars will turn into a _____ star next.

• protostar

• red giant

• supergiant

• black hole

A massive star can end it's life as a ______ or ___________.

• neutron star/black hole

• main sequence star/ nebula

• supernova

  nebula

• red giant

  supergiant

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

True or False
Constellations are stars that appear to be in a pattern.

• True
• False

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NGSS.5-ESS1-2

What is the name of the explosion at the death of a massive star?

• Supergiant

• Supernova

• Black Hole

• Nebula

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

About 90 percent of the stars in the universe, including the sun, are main sequence stars. What do all main sequence stars have in common?

• All main sequence stars are yellow like our sun.

• All main sequence stars are as bright as our sun.

• They are all undergoing fusion of helium into carbon within their cores

• They are undergoing fusion of hydrogen into helium within their cores

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

Which of the following is a name used for stars:

• Neutron
• Supergiant
• White dwarf
• All of the above

What is a Neutron star?

• a star

• a celestial object of very small radius (typically 18 miles/30 km and very high density, composed predominantly of closely packed neutrons. Neutron stars are thought to form by the gravitational collapse of the remnant of a massive star after a supernova explosion, provided that the star is insufficiently massive to produce a black hole.

• a core of a star